By Meripet Since 2016, many diaspora Uyghurs have been asking the Chinese regime the whereabouts of their missing families in East Turkistan (AKA Xinjiang) on Western media platforms. Although media questioning did not put an end to China’s cruel crack down on Uyghurs in their homeland, however, the Western world […]
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By Memet Tohti Atawulla Jan 5, 2020 Last week the Chinese state media Global Times published a special article showing a video and several photos of some Uyghurs, whom they claimed ‘the vocational training center graduates’ in Xinjiang, in an attempt to discredit diaspora Uyghurs. My youngest brother Ruzi Memet […]
By Fatimah Abdulghafur It seems a hashtag #StillNoInfo on Twitter has finally engaged the diaspora Uighurs and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the question of missing Uighur families in China. Fake ‘graduation’ from the ‘vocational training centres’ On Dec 9, 2019, China claimed without evidence that all the ‘students’ […]
Written by Sedef for the Uighur Language Service of The Uyghur Times. This news was published on The Uyghur Times Uyghur language website on Dec 29, 2019. Translated into English by the Uyghur Times English Channel. In places all over the world, Istanbul, Kayseri, Tabriz, Amsterdam, The Hague, Berlin, Malaysia, […]
On Dec.22, Uighur Times (English) board members unanimously voted in favor of Fatimah Abdulghafur to be the next Director of Uighur Times. As the new director of Uighur Times, Fatimah is going to lead a group of volunteers at Uighur Times to continue its news reports focusing on the current […]
Uyghur Times Dec 29, 2019 Written and contributed to Uighur Times English by Fatimah Abdulghafur In response to China’s oppression and genocide of Uighurs and locking up more than 3 million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the concentration camps in Chinese occupied land of East Turkistan, more and more […]
There are many Chinese government propaganda news outlets in the United States and around the world, which are under direct control by the CCP. Those include CCTV, CGTN, Global Times, People’s Daily, etc. Among them, CGTN America has been actively engaging propaganda campaigns in the US and on the Internet […]
Lawmakers of the United States House of Representatives voted 407 to 1 to approve the Uyghur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act (Uighur Act or Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act) of 2019, which commands the US administration to identify and sanction officials deemed responsible for their involvement in the […]
– Thank you so much for this award and especially for creating the Magnitsky Act to hold human rights violators accountable. – By focusing on the human rights abuses perpetrated by an authoritarian state against one man, Sergey Magnitsky, you have made it possible to seek and achieve a […]
Sophie Richardson China Director Original source: Human Rights Watch Earlier this month, a dozen United Nations experts quietly issued an unprecedented and devastating assessment of the Chinese government’s counterterrorism law. Their critique highlights the way this law is being used to justify gross violations of basic rights and freedoms in Xinjiang, […]